Vol. 12, Special Issue 10 (2023)

Author(s):
Varsha More, MK Dubey, Ashish Kumar Nagar, Arpit Somtiya and Sarita Paradkar

Abstract:
Agriculture is vital to Indian economy. In fact, agriculture is in grained to civilization irrespective of territory. Thus, the socio-economic development of Indian society largely depends on the progress of agriculture. The productivity of crops is the focus of agriculture development. This becomes more important with the rising challenge of shrinking land. Seed can play an important role in raising the productivity of the crop. It can be enhanced by increasing the seed replacement rate. The study was conducted with 120 respondents randomly selected in six village of Bhainsdehi block. During the study, the data obtained from the department of farmer welfare and agriculture development Betul, seed replacement rate of Soybean was 11.50% before the programme, but after that Seed Village Programme was started, the seed replacement rate has improved. The current seed replacement rate of soybean in Bhainsdehi block of Betul district is 30.12%, which was better than old seed replacement rate. So, there is certainly a positive, good and absolute effect of seed village programme on seed replacement rate.